Jane Chinn Hospital

The Jane Chinn Hospital opened in March 1911 at 1400 West Austin Boulevard in Webb City, Missouri. The hospital was funded by a $60,000 gift from Jane Chinn — Elizabeth Jane Webb Stewart Chinn, born 1829 in Overton County, Tennessee — and her husband Charles R. Chinn. Jane Chinn was a cousin of John C. Webb, the founder of the city. The gift, announced in June 1910, was the culmination of roughly a decade of effort by local volunteers and the Salvation Army to establish a hospital for the lead and zinc miners working the Tri-State Mining District.

The hospital opened with 33 beds and an operating room equipped with electric lighting that allowed surgeries to continue at night. Working miners paid 25 cents a month for hospital coverage; mine operators paid $5 per month. The Jane Chinn replaced an earlier Salvation Army Hospital and served as the primary medical facility for the city through much of the early twentieth century.

In the late twentieth century the hospital ceased medical operations. The building was preserved through adaptive reuse and converted to senior apartments, retaining the Jane Chinn name. A separate 1893 Jane Chinn residence in Webb City suffered extensive fire damage in May 2025; that structure is distinct from the hospital building.

A historical marker maintained by the Historical Marker Database documents the hospital's founding and significance to Webb City's mining-era social history.